Between Terror and Tolerance: Religious Leaders, Conflict, and Peacemaking

List of Contributors

241 Contributors l Mari Fitzduff is professor and former director of the international master of arts program Coexistence and Conflict at Brandeis University. From 1997 to 2003 she held a chair of Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster where she was director of UNU/INCORE, which addresses the management of ethnic, political, and religious conflict through an integrated approach using research, training, policy, program, and practice development. From 1990 to 1997 she was chief executive of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, which works with government , statutory bodies, trade unions, churches, community groups, security groups, ex-prisoners, businesses, and politicians to develop programs and training to address issues of conflict resolution in Northern Ireland. Professor Fitzduff has also worked on programs that address conflict and diversity issues in many countries, including the Basque Country, Sri Lanka, Middle East, and Indonesia, and she serves as an international expert for many governments and international organizations on issues of conflict and coexistence , including the United Nations, the World Bank, the Commonwealth, the European Union, and the British Council. Her publications include Beyond Violence : Conflict Resolution Processes in Northern Ireland, winner of an American Library Notable Publications Award; Community Conflict Skills, published in 1988 and now in its fourth edition; and NGO’s at the Table, which she coedited with Cheyanne Church. Her most recent publication is The Psychology of War, Conflict Resolution and Peace, a three-volume series that she coedited with Chris Stout. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban is a professor of anthropology at Rhode Island College , where she teaches courses in anthropology and Islamic, African, and AfroAmerican studies. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Temple University and her doctorate in anthropology and African Studies from Northwestern University in 1973.At Rhode Island College she received both the Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Award for Distinguished Scholarship. Over 242 coNTribuTorS three decades she has lived and conducted research in Sudan, and in North Africa for six years. She is a founder and twice past president of the Sudan Studies Association and is currently conducting research in Sudan under a two-year grant from the US Institute of Peace. She is the author or editor of eleven books, including Islamic Societies in Practice ; Islamic Law and Society in the Sudan; and Historical Dictionary of the Sudan (coauthored). She translated the writings of Egyptian liberal-humanist intellectual Muhammad Sa’id al-Ashmawy from Arabic to English in Against Islamic Extremism. She is also the editor of Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology: Dialogue for Ethically Conscious Practice. Recent works include Race and Identity in the Nile Valley, coedited with Kharyssa Rhodes; Race and Racism: An Introduction; and Female Well-Being:Toward a Global Theory of Social Change, coauthored and coedited with Janet M. Billson. Sumit Ganguly is a professor of political science and holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington .Professor Ganguly has previously taught at James Madison College,Michigan State University,Hunter College,the Graduate School of the City University of New York, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has also been a fellow and a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and a visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of fifteen books on South Asian politics. His latest books are The State of India’s Democracy (edited with Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner) and India, Pakistan, and the Bomb (cowritten with S. Paul Kapur). Professor Ganguly serves on the editorial boards of Asian Affairs, Asian Survey, Current History, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Strategic Studies, and Security Studies. He is also the founding editor of the only referreed social science journal devoted to the study of contemporary India, The India Review, and he is one of the editors of the International Studies Quarterly. Rosalind I. J. Hackett is a distinguished professor in the humanities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she teaches religious studies and anthropology . In the early 1980s she taught at the University of Calabar in Nigeria. She has published widely on religion in Africa, notably on new religious movements, as well as on art, media, gender, conflict, and religious freedom in the African context . In 2005 she was elected president of the International Association for the History of Religions. She has published an edited volume, Proselytization Revisited : Rights Talk, Free Markets, and Culture...